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A deep dive into Google DeepMind's Vision Banana, a foundation vision model that learns spatial physics by generating images. We explore how instruction tuning turns a capable base into a generalist vision learner capable of depth estimation, segmentation, and more—without task-specific training. We'll discuss how AI paints depth into color channels, zero-shot capabilities, and the implications for real-world perception and problem solving.
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